On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Matthias Friedrich <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I think it would be a good idea to provide a Maven archetype for > Crunch to make it easier for users to play with it. I've created an > archetype [1] based on our example projects and uploaded it to my own > Maven repo for demo: > > mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://dev.mafr.de/repos/maven2/ > > Select the Crunch archetype, enter Maven coordinates and you'll get > a simple project with (hopefully) correct dependency setup and job > packaging. Crunch hit Maven Central this morning, so you don't even > need to mvn install Crunch first :) > > Should we add the archetype to the Crunch code base? It's kind of > redundant (we have examples already), but it'll make writing a > "getting started" document for 0.4.0 really easy. > > Another thing: In the archetype I had to add some dependencies that > are missing from hadoop-core but are needed to get LocalJobRunner > working. If we added those to Crunch, they would be added to the job > JAR's lib directory unnecessarily. But they don't cause any trouble > and it would make job setup easier for our users. What do you think?
How big are they, in terms of bytes? > > Regards, > Matthias > > [1] hg clone http://dev.mafr.de/repos/hg/crunch-job-basic/ -- Director of Data Science Cloudera Twitter: @josh_wills
